Dick Tracy by Mike Curtis and Charles Ettinger for August 26, 2009

Look! It’s a giant pig on wheels in panel 2!

HEY! CARTOONISTS! We need some better art and writing– AND QUICK!

We’ve got a comic strip dying here.

And who knows how long it will be before something even happens “next”?

I would like to take “drwatson’s” 12th word and utter it out really loud when I view this strip. DL and JB sorry to say this but you guys need to get another job!

What happened to the fingerprints we was lookin at a couple of days ago?

don’t worry the FBI will be here “shortly” sigh

Why is there a pig on wheels next to the tent in panel 2? Perhaps suspending the performances and having a lockdown might be appropriate.

WHAT WE SEE - - -

marguritum sees a “pig” on wheels

jumbobrain still sees the girls body

flightsuit sees nothing

bassmanbob sees Mattie on the horizon (A new suspect ?)

Fearless_ Fosdick expects to see a fingerprint report (he never will) - Locher forgot about that already.

While, I see Tracy looking down and focusing on some “boobs”. (Perhaps he’s thinking, I’ll use the Matrix pack to change that Jay Leno face ?)

I believe that many years ago, Locher as an apprentice to Chester Gould was chewed out for poor and sloppy artwork. It has been fermenting for these many years and with age has transformed into “Locher’s Revenge” and is a deliberate act of destroying forever… Gould’s “Dick Tracy” “It’s Happened” the strip has been murdered,, it’s dead!.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but they’re not making it up as they go. The Sunday strip is roughly following the same storyline, and that’s difficult to keep synced. The deadline for the Sundays is about 12 weeks in advance, but the deadline for the dailies is about 6 weeks. That’s why most cartoonists don’t even bother trying to incorporate the Sunday strip in the storyline.

Long story short, it’s all planned out in advance from start to finish. Sorry, I think it’s deliberate.

@idarke - that makes it even worse, so for 12 weeks they knew that they are publishing something that they are making up on the fly

Apparently they spent a good part of a minute working on today’s script.

HEY ! YEE GODS ! Mattie sounds like the Woodstock sound Cryer. SOMETHING BIG ! No doubt to tell us how great Locher is (?) While all the contradicting evidence piles up like “loads” from Special Agent Dumbo.

This is the 3rd or 4th time he’s back ?? Only six days ago after almost swearing that he doesn’t read the board, blasting GoComicc to shreds (I’d rather NOT “repeat” the actual “language” here) Ripping UP poor Judy H as a distasteful fraud who should be “banned” for LIFE (and he “requested” that she be) then, not satisfied, calling his fellow posters here “MINIPHALICKS”, who he accused of taking “personal” shots at him and Dick Locher, And those in charge doing nothing about it. (in Mattie’s world HE can fire the shots, YOU can’t)

His name is “Matthew P. Hansel”, and for a long time i’ve wondered just what the “P” stood for in this erratic young man ? Many “descriptive” words came to mind, but it’s not all that bad, it’s PICA - Matthew PICA Hansel. The Latin word for “BIRD”. Hence his understandable love for “birds” and in particular his favorite the Magpie.

This inspired an adaptation of a Nursery Rhyme. See it below

Has Tracy or anyone else thought to ask Barb Els the Gorilla-Woman where she found those notes, or who handed them to her? Anyone? Bueller?

Just curious: If this strip is so bad (and believe me, I’m not saying it isn’t), why does it always get so many comments? Why isn’t it simply ignored? Humbly yours, Hutch…

Hutch, most people come here to laugh at the postings. Often they can’t help themselves and post some sort of mocking comment of their own, which perpetuates the downward spiral.

Bunch of sickos.

Not me though. I think Dick Tracy is hot and cheaper than viagra.

FOUR AND TWENTY MAGPIES

Sing a song in “penitence”, with a pocket full of - SIGHS - Mattie’s back, as four and twenty Magpies are starting up to CRY For when the board was opened, the birds would feel HIS sting. It was October 4 and Mattie P’s jus’ “shouting”, messages from the KING King Locher pushed for rough “accounting”, with Jeffery strong supporting “No false witness” EVER on the board, enforcer Mattie’s here for “clouting” Judy in the Garden hanging Mattie clothes, Down came Chief Magpie Mattie, pecking off her nose - “banned” forever - NO more “revealing” prose !

Matthew: What’s happening on October 4th??

I just checked out “Calvin and Hobbes”. There are about 63 comments with one in particular that’s a scream. Oh and.. again I say…. “It’s Happened” this strip is dead, gone , kaput!!!

I think the lady is hot – uh, she is a lady, right? I kind of enjoy Dick Tracy.

On 10/4/09 Mattie will become the 21st Century version of Chester Gould. I think he’s going to be involved in the strip in some way. The comments after that should be mighty interesting.

Ludwig,

Are you “sticking him up” before he puts on the badge ?

If I am correct (and I have no idea if I am) things on this message board should get fun :)

Hey man, dang ol’, dang ol, wanna know if dat dang ol’ Barb Bels a TG’d Boomhower? Dang ol’, tell you what!

You know, it really would be better if TMS just started rerunning Gould’s work. Mind you, the comments would not be nearly so entertaining. But I do get to feeling bad, since Locher and Borzman have families and it’s gotta be embarrassing, to have a daily parade of people saying their work is shite. Mind you, they could work harder at making it good….

What a novel way to transition into another life for Tracy’s strip! Here, Tracy is giving some serious thought to giving Barb a first-class groping by pretending to do a pat-down search. He gets arrested, hauled in by Teevo, and charges filed on him. THEN, Mattie takes the helm! I’ve seen Mattie’s work, as many of us have. It’s not bad at all. At least, Mattie doesn’t share the perversion with Tracy, keeping it all for himself. If Mattie takes over, it would breathe new life into Tracy. He’ll re-start the story with Tracy making giant strides searching for evidence, including cavity searches, elephant first.

..look this strip had a pig on wheels and a muscle man in drag…how many strips have that much going for them…

Morrow, funny stuff!!